Knowledge and choice
Hello Rabbi,
If God is above time and everything is for Him as present, then what is the problem with knowledge and choice? After all, His knowledge is because of our choice.
The statement that God is above time is meaningless. We are not above time. If, as far as we are concerned, He knows the future now, then the question remains how we have the freedom to choose tomorrow. Why does it matter what happens as far as He is concerned if we are the ones asking the question?
Beyond that, even if you assume that he is above time (what is that anyway?), then at most it would explain how he obtains the information about what will happen tomorrow. But the question of knowledge and choice is the opposite question: assuming that he did obtain the information and he already knows it today, how is it possible that I have freedom of choice tomorrow? Am I also above time?
Ultimately, vague sentences of this kind do not settle anything, they only confuse the public.
If I may,
I didn't understand why the fact that God knows what I chose yesterday is less detrimental to my freedom of choice than if He knows what I chose tomorrow (and with the emphasis on the fact that I chose).
Incidentally, it seems to me that the ability to be timeless (or above time in this language) is quite defined after we hold that time is a created thing.
There seems to be a problem with the wording here…
You ask: If it is known what I will do tomorrow, how do I have freedom of choice?
The answer is that he does not know today what I will do tomorrow, but he knows tomorrow what I did tomorrow after I did it, and being atemporal, he does not have the concept of knowing today or tomorrow, because his knowledge is not that he knows today about tomorrow, but rather he does not have today and tomorrow at all.
Therefore, the main question is what is meant by being above time, but this will be defined as there is no obstacle to saying that he knows (knowledge as above) what I will choose (free choice) tomorrow.
All you have to do is set it up, and everything will be great.
His Excellency will continue…
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